FOREST GROVE – The Forest Grove boys soccer team advanced to the second round of the Class 6A state playoffs for the first time since 2008 with a 2-1 victory Saturday afternoon over McKay.

Goals by junior midfielder Omar Lopez and senior midfielder Marcos Campuzano in the first and second halves, respectively, staked the Vikings to a 2-0 lead. And Forest Grove (11-4-1), the fifth-place team from the Pacific Conference, was held on from there behind impressive play from junior goalkeeper Reggie Lopez-Orosco.

“It’s so big for us,” Lopez said. “I felt like we had to get this win. With the season we’ve had, we just had to make it to the second round.”

Forest Grove advances to a second-round game Tuesday against Aloha, a 1-0 winner Saturday over Grant. The season comes to an end for McKay (8-3-4), the second-place team from the Central Valley Conference shooting for its second straight second-round appearance.

A goal by McKay senior Alejandro Palafox with five minutes left in the game added some suspense to the final minutes. But as McKay continued to attack, Forest Grove goalkeeper Reggie Lopez-Orosco made a game saving, diving save with three minutes left on a header shot by junior Damian Ibarra Ortez.

“That was such a good feeling,” said Lopez-Orosco, who also happens to be Forest Grove’s leading scorer with 13 goals on the season, which included a hat trick in the Vikings’ play-in game victory Tuesday over Sprague.

Lopez-Orosco started in goal in place of injured sophomore Ricardo Torres Vasquez.